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News in Afghanistan u.s. Senator
Lindsey Graham said a u.s.

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Troop drawdown is coming we get more on
that story from the piece Charles de la

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Desmo speaking from the Afghan capital
Kabul Graham said the president could use

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troops to 8600 down from the current 12000
adding Afghanistan's national security

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forces all ready to defend their country
Graham added America's withdrawal from

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Afghanistan has to be condition based
and the Taliban have to be held to the

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promises they make Jorian peace
talks grandma supposed a full u.s.

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Troop withdrawal from Afghanistan I'm.
Monday March 75 years since the start of one

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of World War 2 XP pivotal battles

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a p Washington correspondent saga Madani
reports of snow covered art and forced

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shock here along what it was the Western
Front defense secretary Mark aspers

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marking Germany's last major counter
offensive in 19446 months after D.-Day the

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battle of the Bulge American troops fought
and forged an incredible victory that

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assured Hitler's feet in a cold soaking
rain veteran Malcolm buck Marsh Jr told

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a crowd here at the memorial to Americans
killed in the battle that the weather was

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worse then freezing temperatures of line.
Being snow allies who won the battle and

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the war Marsh would rather not have it
happen to get ready for World Peace soccer

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make Ani with the defense secretary Best
own Belgium authorities at the u.s.

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Military academy and u.s.

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Naval Academy are investigating hand
gestures made during the Army Navy football

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game over the weekend he's my grandson
who has more on the story the u.s.

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Military Academy and the u.s.

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Naval Academy say officers have been
appointed to investigate motivations behind

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hand signals flashed by some cadets and
midshipman during last Saturday's Army Navy

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football game in
Philadelphia during the t.v.

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Broadcast some West Point cadets and Naval
Academy midshipman flashed what looked

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like

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a sideways Ok finger gesture photos and
clips of the gestures went viral on social

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media some Twitter users
condemned the gesture as

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a white power sign others defended it as
the gotcha or circle game that's popular

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with children Mike Ross Washington the wife
of Zimbabwe's vice president is charged

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with attempting to kill her husband a
magistrate on Monday ordered Mary to win

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a former model and wife of vice president
Constantino Jimmy. Remain in custody

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pending

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a bail hearing she is accused of trying to
deny her husband medical care insisting

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that he stay at a hotel instead of

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a hospital when he was flown to South
Africa for medical treatment back in July

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he's also charged with money laundering
and fraud amid reports of their troubled

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marriage allegedly from here in
Washington I'm Michael Brown v.o.a.

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News.

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Good Morning America welcome to daybreak
Africa of America but in Washington that

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December 7th Here are some of this
is the risk we're covering the u.n.

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Holds

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a global event for the private sector money
for Refugees support. Doing it through

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supporting $10000.00 educators
and $170.00 to give

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a full of room again to receive training
professional development on how to engage

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in $93.00 with children find themselves in

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a suburban circumstances
Godling is the c.e.o.

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Of the Lego foundation Ugandans weigh
in on President 7 his latest cabinet

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reshuffle vice president wife is charged
with attempting to kill her husband can't

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be installed to the streets on Monday to
demand President Barroso step down and

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Zambia as the u.s.

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To recall is about the to Zambia because
that in cricket then that number out the

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diplomat they create the image that he
made and apart from the bigger players

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really that different great players they
all get back into government if there is

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a cheap Mbaye is the Zambian presidential
spokesperson and Guinea-Bissau else have

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you have held a

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a caucus those stories them all are
coming up on Daybreak Africa. The

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100 companies and foundations committed in
their time and money and business acumen

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to help many of the wells 25000000 refugees
find jobs get an education and become

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contributing members of their countries
of exile representatives of these

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organizations more than 2000 representatives
from all sectors of society attended

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the 1st ever global red. Forum Lisa shrine
reports from the meeting in Geneva the

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forum has gotten off to

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a good start the un refugee agency
reports that more than 30 organizations

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including multinationals and small and
medium sized enterprises have pledged more

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than $250000000.00 to help transform the
lives of refugees and the communities

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hosting them when the refugee crisis hit
Europe in 2016 multinational retailer Ikea

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committed itself to providing employment
to many of the refugees who had no means

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of support told go on Susi your advice
as income group says his organization

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pledges to scale up this program
he says Ikea plans to support 2500

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refugees through job training and language
skills in 300 of its stores in 30

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countries by 2022 he says this action
will help the refugees and the company's

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bottom line it is good business to do good
we have to have their fortune to think

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in generations there is another part where
we are committing to do and that is to

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participate in changing the narrative in
the society around refugees we want this

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narrative to be

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a positive narrative the Vodaphone Foundation
runs high quality education programs

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for refugee children in camps in Kenya
Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of

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Congo it says it plans to expand these
programs to encompass more than one half

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1000000 young refugees in new countries by
2025 the lake of foundation also values

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the opportunities education offers refugee
children it see of John Goodwin says

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this year the foundation is
a warning $100000000.00 to

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a consortium led by the International
Rescue Committee to help host governments

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improve the educational outcomes 480-0000
pretty prime. And primary school children

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living in refugee settings in East Africa
doing this through supporting I 10000

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educators and 170000 caregivers all of
whom are going to receive training and

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professional development on how to engage
in learning through play with children

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who find themselves in the suburban
circumstances Goodwin says the late

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a foundation is focusing on East Africa
because of the region's largely forgotten

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longstanding refugee crisis he says many
people there have been displaced for

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upwards of 30 years and his organization
wants to help children in this environment

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have a better start in life
Lisa shrine for v.o.a.

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News journey Zambian president has
officially petitioned the u.s.

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Government to recall the u.s.

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Ambassador to Zambia presidential
spokesperson Isaac pay says Ambassador Daniel

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felt behaved ethically by criticizing
the Zambian government this after

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a court jailed 2 men accused of engaging
in homosexual relations according to local

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media reports Zambia's Constitution is
against same sex partnerships but critics

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say the government appears to be
going after the ambassador on l g b

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t issues but failed to respond when

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a top American envoy raised concerns about
corruption presidential spokesman she

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Pam paid tells viewers Peter Clottey
desire to be in government is waiting for

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every spawn from Washington it's been

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a very out and pretty dead. Country
and we prize that story as.

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The president doesn't that much. It's

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a point. About why you
appointed because the

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story in one of the new. Outlets where.

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Pointed we.

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Now what was surprising
was that. America number.

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2 was that increasing.
Number thought that.

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Government was the president of the challis
through the Mideast all foreign affairs

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petitioned the u.s.

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Administration for the recall of the
ambassador. Government to mash which is

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a complaint American government. And.

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I think government have been waiting for
the American government to respond some

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critics of the government are saying that
the government was very quick and sharp

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to criticize the ambassador
when he talks about l.g.b.

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Issues by when the same I write about talked
about issues of corruption and all of

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that the government was silent and has
done nothing about it how do you start to

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start criticisms from opponents of the
government. Should be specific if you want

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government or any government your government
or the government can be inconsistent

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that you are talking about.
Minorities you talk about

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minorities but you cannot criticize any
board of government. Then suddenly you

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drift into. Then. You haven't
been able to meet that

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it is just fishing that's what the president
has been talking about it. Really.

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Does that corruption issue the.
President has been saying when the day.

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It's up. Even the president
doesn't. But you'll.

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See. What is corruption about and it's

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very sad because I can
tell you. That in America

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Trump in America is I mean
I'm with him for. Talking

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about. What. People are trained.

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And now they're saying not.
Only them but they become

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so that he cannot meet an African.
Isaac cheap time pays the Zambian

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presidential spokesperson he spoke with
us Peter Clottey from Livingstone Zambia

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You're listening to daybreak Africa on
the Voice of America I'm James but in

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Washington today is Tuesday December of 70
daybreak Africa time and 14 minutes past

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the hour

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a spokesman for Ugandan parliament Terry
Roberts' people power movement says this

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week's cabinet reshuffle by President
Yoweri more 70 was carried out to reward

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those who played a key role in changing
the Constitution 2870 to remove

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a limit the change pave the way of thought
missed almost 70 Impala since 1986 to

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once again contest for the president say
in 2021 the government says the cabinet

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shake up is intended to strengthen him for
his name was seventies hand in his fight

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against corruption Bobby wines people
power movements both man Joel is saying I

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need says the new appointments are part
of a pitch on a system in Uganda where

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a cabinet position handed out not based
on merit but rather because of what those

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appoint that have done for the president.

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Wanted. People. To move.

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And militarily had we would have.

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Seen

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a number. And

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it. Really did you want it.

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Would be very sad because.
People have been. Killed and you

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can believe their heart because something
they have. It's you know is the

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prerogative of the president to change his
cabinet and I think one reading was that

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the president does so as

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a way of fighting corruption and putting
in place competent people but tell us I

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just and that this government reshuffle
is intended for the reelection of the

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president 2021 really

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a reward for the championship remembrance
of our contribution to the whole talk

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about. I don't know about. That.

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So I don't see how.

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A little. We don't hire people because
we have because we have huge.

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Huge. Banyan favor Ok.

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What kind of people. That
will expect really vary

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but for. A while because people
are not competing. But not very

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big but if you. Look at the

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faces of the new cabinet as the president
bring it on younger people now and.

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Being brought on board

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a lot of those who are. Who do
political runs for president. But

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. The people.

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That you've. Got

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a couple of other. Not

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.

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For an hour. Expect.

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A Country Hour. Around.

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The Un I'm supposed to make

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a nationwide tour has
started now. Somebody

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else. Gets to.

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Before. You suffered

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a response from. The 535.

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Provide. The

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taxpayer money to provide.

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The spokesman for use on

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a parliamentary people power he was
speaking with us from the Ugandan capital

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Kampala Zimbabwe vice president Constantine
wife has been remanded in custody by

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a Harare magistrate on charges of attempting
to kill her. Husband while he was in

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the hospital forging

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a marriage certificate and money laundering
Mary Chiwenga who was arrested by the

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Zimbabwe anti-corruption
commission on Saturday faces

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a lengthy prison term if found guilty the
vice president emerita Wanga divorcing

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the state claims that Mrs Chiwenga tried
to kill her husband when she visited him

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at is South Africa hospital where she
allegedly forcibly removed an intravenous

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Gavan set which were being used by did
then helpless former army general.

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Attorney refused any comment on the
issue. Human rights lawyer man should not

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be urged to conduct

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a. High profile case involving this
in Bob with Vice President. No

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offense present at Cannes the issue of the
police to court statements from the test

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and that is finding one. Issued to
us that the charge of the child.

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And then the question requires that they
should be brought to court to eating 48

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hours. This is what happened and
she appeared in college because.

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There is what we call it that she will
offend meaning of that she is one of those

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fancy looking at. Present evidence
and what huge means is that.

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Only the high court can deal with the.
Application is clear when you are paying the

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court you are just being brought in for

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a routine remand because that court does
not have been must not have the children

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16 to entertain the day that petition so
of course the attorney general is going to

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see that court should have she was to take
him so I think that is what happened. To

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proceed to fight in operation in the
High Court in the middle of the fences.

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But due to place before that court.
There eating up occasionally in order.

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To get to mine those charges. Filed
all those being the application.

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In terms of. Helping planted. In Kenya

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and uncaring according to. Dr King
conflict with. Comes to Bally meant was it

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actually I'm not tied to you know the shoes
for the event saying that someone who

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didn't mean I think it had mostly to ask

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a 1000 people happy again quoting mid
Atlantic injunction in Czech event in that

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into a debate or the equivalent

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a nice trick is to put in play conditions
to ensure that the kids pay thing as

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attend a court. Martial. Is

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a human rights lawyer if you were speaking
we get to be Zimbabwe as service.

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Gambians talked to the streets on Monday
to demand president. Step down before

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January 19th 2020 The protesters also
demanding what they called Fresh credible and

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transparent elections to be held before
September 2020 they made demands in

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a petition presented to
President barrel through

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a representative of his government by
reports from Raleigh North Carolina.

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Devices of the 3 years during the protest
us thousands of protesters come but I'm

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going to be set up with that bundle highway
on Monday. And I'm about to step down

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from power the protesters one by one.
Branches of government promise me

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a gun be an important. Event to organize
an uproar just like you didn't you hear

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some of the protesters through from the
doing their colleagues in the Gambia but I

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have been accused of between us is an
aspirational began to people the protesters

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had branded but

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a 3 year rule. He said quote I believe in
is on the increase why did countries has

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said he was going to study the ocean and.
Listen to pride of Gandhi and use them to

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say Dein because of bandwidth unity
you know the protests and I was also

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characterized by singing and the chanting
of on time but our government sentiments

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are no no. No no no.

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Young Woman There was a Gandhi

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a lawyer he's only organizers of the
protests mind everyone who is here today

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should be able to tell President you must.
Forget about the Koran is that around

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him at state house the very careful of
them because when the people are holding

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them accountable they will run
dissipate into the air like

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a teen. No In any walk away
from the promise of running

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a tree transitional government is

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a very good relinquishes he would have the
reason behind indignity of his veto if

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he should continue he would like the
respect credibility and there will be even

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more defiance against him and he suppresses
it was an insult I think for now damn

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on his group said they were the one
going to the opportunity really

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a petition they want to look to on

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a really nice train 3 movement group people
like this there is no that's going to

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stop us from March in the band room if we
so desire and we want more strength to

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stay doesn't who I don't go out I'm thinking
about the protests that have gone on

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but I'm in section for the shift of the
Constitution and organized elections in

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September of 2020 they said but
should also not be himself as

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a presidential candidate in the proposed
elections who view it in Africa this is

00:24:38
pondering by reporting from Raleigh North
Carolina you thinking about healthy

00:24:43
hackathon last week to see how local i

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t professionals would solve problems in
the country ranging from agricultural to

00:24:52
a governess and more. Barry who helped run
the event to talk to reconstruct about

00:24:58
some of the solutions they had 1st came
up with to address local needs. Well and.

00:25:06
Rose was too young
professional. In the same

00:25:13
place to hack some challenges
that can be solved by using

00:25:19
technology where some of those challenges
have to lie yeah it's in different topics

00:25:24
in agriculture. House
Education and also one of the

00:25:31
challenges in infrastructure for
transportation we had its roots

00:25:38
in different challenges and
we selected one of them was

00:25:43
a project said how because you as you
know maybe Guinea Bissau don't have

00:25:49
a centralized that have babies or health
care like if you have some issues you go

00:25:56
to the hospital like for example in
the regions doctor not your clinic.

00:26:02
He don't have any information recorded
about you he have to repeat every teen

00:26:09
to do every consultations if you don't
have. To explain anything he can't have

00:26:16
any information on so one of
the solutions we have. Is

00:26:23
who create a database centralize
Every around the country it's

00:26:28
a centralized database. That will record
the information of every passion in

00:26:35
different hospitals
around the country how is

00:26:38
a solution specifically here. And how
would it be implemented so basically they

00:26:43
really use tree type all solution the 1st
one going to be platform from that we'll

00:26:50
be used by different. Clinics where they
have access to Internet the 2nd solution

00:26:56
is going to be a USA So it's offline
back from the telco company's a.p.i.

00:27:03
Use it it's

00:27:03
a radio solution that will not
use the Internet so. That was

00:27:10
a call found of in the valley he was speaking
to Ricky from Guinea-Bissau. That is

00:27:17
it for this Tuesday December 17th edition
of daybreak Africa be held for the

00:27:22
daybreak Africa team producer Nicole reporters
Peter Clottey and breakage truck as

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00:27:32
a Coke. Washington wishing you

00:27:35
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Hello there today is Tuesday December the
17th this is the always international

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edition I'm Lori London in Washington
coming up Democrats list their witnesses

00:28:59
wanted for impeachment in

00:29:01
a trial as Republicans say there will be
no witnesses to their help and far in the

00:29:06
. Favor of are going to be different no
matter what the evidence the jet and that's

00:29:11
what they're going to do the u.s.

00:29:12
Envoy in Seoul with a message for
North Korea on its threat of

00:29:15
a deadline for the u.s.

00:29:16
To make concessions. Let me be absolutely
clear the United States does not

00:29:24
have a deadline we have a game and it
only took 25 years for the song to become

00:29:30
a number one hits well ahead of

00:29:33
a full vote on Wednesday the last step
before moving to trial in the Senate House

00:29:37
Democrats laid out their impeachment case
against President Donald Trump Monday

00:29:41
a sweeping report accuses him of betraying
the nation and deserving to be ousted

00:29:46
what Democrats once hoped would be a
bipartisan act is only the 3rd time in u.s.

00:29:52
History that the House
will be voting to impeach

00:29:54
a president and that is now on track to be

00:29:57
a starkly partisan roll call on Wednesday
no Republicans are breaking with the

00:30:02
president on almost all Democrats are
expected to approve the charges against him

00:30:07
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer sent

00:30:08
a letter to his Republican colleagues
requesting several witnesses and documents

00:30:13
that were blocked by the president to be
submitted for the upcoming impeachment

00:30:17
trial

00:30:18
a good number of my Republican colleagues
have said they believe the charges are

00:30:23
serious but there isn't enough
evidence yet for them to make

00:30:27
a decision. We believe these witnesses
and documents would provide the evidence

00:30:34
they're looking for so
far Republicans who hold

00:30:37
a majority in the Senate say they will not
cooperate one of the president's loudest

00:30:41
supporters said. Mr Lindsey Graham for
moated that sentiment that I want to end it

00:30:47
I don't want to legitimize it I hate what
they're doing Senate Majority Leader

00:30:52
Mitch McConnell is facing criticism for
saying he is taking cues from the White

00:30:56
House as the insurance Trump will not be
or will not be there will not be 67 votes

00:31:01
needed in the Senate to convict the
president Democrats complain he and other

00:31:05
Republicans are not operating as impartial
jurors Joining us to talk more about all

00:31:10
of it is Mark Roselle dean of the Shar
School of Policy and government at George

00:31:15
Mason University thank you so much for being
with us so before we get into all that

00:31:20
strands firing How have Democrats made the
case for impeaching the president of the

00:31:24
United States I think the Democrats have
indeed made the case they've laid out the

00:31:29
evidence and of course much of the other
Tim says been directly acknowledged by the

00:31:33
president who's himself through issued

00:31:36
a transcript of the incriminating phone
call right and did not deny that this took

00:31:42
place and then even called on other
nation states to similarly conduct

00:31:47
investigations of family member of his
potential political opponent for 2020 so the

00:31:53
president hasn't been in denial about
what happened and many of the president's

00:31:58
defenders are not and are not denying the
facts in this particular case so I think

00:32:03
it's been easy for the Democrats to
establish their case what should happen in

00:32:09
a Senate trial is that the senators
would hear the evidence and make

00:32:14
a determination whether the case against
the president has been proven and not be

00:32:18
thinking primarily about their partisan
situation and the like and Democrats are

00:32:23
but are pushing forward with the argument
that even with all the evidence that they

00:32:27
have there so much more that they don't
have because the White House has blocked

00:32:33
documents or testimony from any key
witnesses who Republicans are now also not

00:32:39
willing to produce Well that's one of the
challenges. In this current situation the

00:32:44
president and his White House staff
would not cooperate with pay House

00:32:49
investigation they refused to participate
they refused to turn over relevant

00:32:54
documents and other information that is
very germane to the investigation and so it

00:32:59
does not look like

00:33:00
a complete investigation by the Democrats
but that's because the White House has

00:33:04
simply refused to participate and so for
that reason the Democrats can legitimately

00:33:10
make the argument that the White House has
engaged in obstruction of Congress given

00:33:15
the fact that under our Constitution Congress
is the grand inquest of the nation it

00:33:19
has the right to conduct investigations
to look into allegations of wrongdoing in

00:33:24
the executive branch and bring that
information out in the open to the public and

00:33:28
act on it if there is substantiation of
allegations of wrongdoing in the executive

00:33:34
branch so the executive branch in

00:33:36
a sense is saying we're just not even going
to participate as though somehow this

00:33:40
process is not legitimate
puts the Democrats in

00:33:42
a really difficult position what kind
of precedent does this set if it's

00:33:46
a terrible president actually because
impeachment of course is such an incredibly

00:33:51
serious matter under our constitutional
system this is only the 4th time in history

00:33:55
we try to impeachment inquiry and so many
people I think are just coming away from

00:34:02
many in the public that is the coming away
from this process with the perception

00:34:06
that this is just another partisan game
that's going on and that the positions of

00:34:11
the Democrats and Republicans are just

00:34:12
a tire way based on their own political
situations and not on the merits of the

00:34:17
case and if that's the conclusion that
people come to out of this process it

00:34:22
doesn't bode well for the future of the
exercise of the impeachment power because

00:34:26
and maybe the president is right on this
one point someday in the future will be

00:34:31
a Democrat in the White House

00:34:32
a Republican Congress stand maybe they
want to play payback time and that would

00:34:37
just be horrible if we got into

00:34:38
a situation frequent and Pietschmann episodes
over. You know differences of policy

00:34:45
and personality which you know it's not in
this particular case but I'm just saying

00:34:49
that he people perceive

00:34:50
a crap way and I think that just cheapens
the whole exercise so if and when which

00:34:54
we expect it will happen the Democrats
will in the full House vote to send these

00:34:59
articles of impeachment to the Senate
whether which requires the trial the

00:35:03
so-called trial if Republicans continue to
just basically not participate just say

00:35:08
they want to kill it as quick as possible
as Lindsey Graham said and don't provide

00:35:12
witnesses and just basically just
potentially exonerate the president without

00:35:17
really giving this

00:35:18
a trial will Americans be satisfied that
this process was carried out fairly and

00:35:25
will they take any of it seriously
regardless of the results if the Republicans

00:35:29
don't take this process seriously
in the Senate they just want to put

00:35:33
a quick end to it without really reviewing
the evidence carefully I think the

00:35:37
public would rightfully believe that the
Senate did not take its constitutional

00:35:42
responsibilities seriously but there is

00:35:45
a hard core of you know Republican base
support for this president and for the

00:35:50
Senate not to take those
process seriously so from

00:35:53
a partisan standpoint supporters of the
president and of the Republican Party are

00:35:58
not going to punish Republican senators
for simply batting away the impeachment

00:36:04
articles quickly but again it's really
unfortunate because these are serious

00:36:07
charges they should be
treated seriously it sets

00:36:10
a very bad precedent for the future percentage
of those to just be treating this as

00:36:14
though it's

00:36:15
a serious matter you know just moving
quickly to put an end to what some of them

00:36:19
are suggesting that they will do so if
they're hell bent on not voting in favor of

00:36:24
articles of impeachment no matter what
the evidence suggests and that's what

00:36:28
they're going to do and the bottom line is
they got the votes from they can do that

00:36:31
right markers Al He is the dean of the
Shar School of Policy and government at

00:36:35
George Mason University thank
you for being with us.

00:36:44
Over the weekend reports in the media
indicated that the trumpet ministration

00:36:47
intends to announce plans to reduce the
number of American forces in Afghanistan by

00:36:51
about 4000 the u.s.

00:36:53
Military tells feel way it has not
received orders to reduce troop levels but

00:36:57
officials in Afghanistan also
tell v.o.a. There are u.s.

00:37:00
Plans to withdraw thousands of troops
from that country Sen Lindsey Graham told

00:37:06
reporters Monday during a visit
to Kabul the Trump is planning

00:37:09
a partial withdrawal of troops and will
make an announcement this week Graham said

00:37:14
moving troops out of Afghanistan does
need to be done the right way and at the

00:37:18
right time. It would be and same for
America to rely on the Taliban to

00:37:25
ensure that al Qaeda and Isis k.

00:37:28
Doesn't come back in a way to represent

00:37:31
a threat to our allies in the American
homeland my colleague Steve Miller talked

00:37:36
about it earlier with reporter ion school
in Islamabad I approached you know

00:37:42
oppression in abundance on India Von
government and old so the military the u.s.

00:37:48
Military stationed there meant what they
told me is quite interesting that. A

00:37:55
presidential spokesman as spokesman for
the of one president told me that this is

00:38:01
an issue that has been under discussion
between the Avlon government and the u.s.

00:38:06
Government on the on the fate of American
forces in Afghanistan and that recently

00:38:12
both sides in principle each agreed
that or 1000 troops could leave.

00:38:19
In a gradual way upon it. And then.
Obviously when I approached the u.s.

00:38:25
Military spokesman I was the word that
they have not received any orders.

00:38:32
About reducing the level of troops
enough on it. So we have we still

00:38:39
waiting. From the you know for some kind
of collision from the White House or

00:38:44
Pentagon whether the crowd down is
in the pipeline but it comes at

00:38:51
a time when we have these negotiations
taking place between the Taleban

00:38:58
and the u.s. Teams in cut that
although they have gotten

00:39:02
a temporarily have been paused but this
is it has been one of the issue here like

00:39:07
the withdrawal of foreign forces from
abundance on has been one of the issues on

00:39:11
the table because that's what the Taliban
want it's called these hostilities been

00:39:17
up on and on you mention the peace talks
with the Taliban. Taking place in Carter

00:39:21
but this is also coming after the Afghan
papers and the United States officials

00:39:26
cited in those papers saying that
there was unclear and uncertain

00:39:33
pathways to victory in Afghanistan what
are they saying more broadly about the

00:39:39
United States presence in Afghanistan it's

00:39:42
a very complex situation but surely
in the wake of the country. That. The

00:39:48
water has been telling I mean if the United
States and allies had not been able to

00:39:54
break that as. It did for
the last 2 years then The

00:40:01
only be out or to bring an end

00:40:04
a bit flawed as the president from
being able to be did he thing.

00:40:12
That's reporter I was goal in Islamabad
speaking with international editions Steve

00:40:16
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international edition.

00:41:04
A senior u.s. Diplomat is in Seoul
South Korea where on Monday he made

00:41:08
a last minute push for North Korea to stop
its provocative actions and get back to

00:41:13
nuclear negotiations Steve begun u.s.

00:41:17
Special representative for North Korea
is there just days after North Korea

00:41:21
conducted 2 tests
apparently of vengeance for

00:41:24
a long range missiles. Let me speak directly
to our counterparts in North Korea.

00:41:32
It is time for us to do our jobs let's get
this done we are here and you know how

00:41:39
to reach us. John Young has promised to
deliver an ominous Christmas gift if the

00:41:44
u.s.

00:41:45
Does not offer more concessions by the end
of the year Joining us to talk more about

00:41:49
these latest developments is proof Bennett
Rand Corporation senior international

00:41:53
defense researcher thank you so much for
being with us we're hearing about this

00:41:57
last minute effort to get North Korea back
to the table before their so-called end

00:42:01
of the year deadline what do you say about
this well it's not last minute big and

00:42:06
has been saying very clearly that the u.s.

00:42:09
Doesn't take the end of the year deadline
that Kim Joan unilaterally declared we

00:42:14
just don't take that
very seriously this is

00:42:16
a long term negotiation process that's
what the North asked or was no immediate

00:42:22
reduction in its nuclear
forces so the u.s.

00:42:26
Has recognized that and compromised on
that issue and so begin is in Seoul in

00:42:32
an effort to coordinate with our Korean
allies our South Korean allies but also to

00:42:38
offer North Korea chance of one more
discussion unfortunately the North Korean when

00:42:44
Ambassador we can happen ago said that
chances for negotiation on denuclearization

00:42:50
were gone they were dead so the North is
being unresponsive because begin is not

00:42:56
offering them

00:42:57
a wonderful compromises with no recompense
from their side was there really ever

00:43:02
any chance that North Korea would give up
their nuclear weapons even if sanctions

00:43:06
were lifted were they ever really serious
about reducing or getting rid of nuclear

00:43:11
weapons that is widely debated in the
community in the United States in South Korea

00:43:16
and in other neighboring countries there
are many people who want to believe been

00:43:21
peaceful coexistence thinking that Kim
is only interested in guaranteeing his

00:43:27
regime survival and for them sure it's

00:43:30
a possibility it doesn't need the number
of nuclear weapons he already has he

00:43:35
should be able to give up some of them but
if we look at his behavior since March

00:43:39
of last year. When he said he was prepared
to negotiate denuclearization he has

00:43:45
roughly doubled is nuclear damage potential
combination of number of weapons and

00:43:51
size of the weapons and that suggests that
he was never really interested just in

00:43:56
survival is also interested in imposing
Korean unification under North Korean

00:44:03
control and

00:44:04
a serious nuclear force on his side gives
him an advantage of doing that if he can

00:44:09
break the us rock alliance and that is
another of his objectives so are we back

00:44:15
where we started from land President Donald
Trump took office and we were tensions

00:44:20
were pretty high back then it seems like
they're intensifying once again it's not

00:44:26
clear why North Korea is ramping it up
the way it is but it's probably not that

00:44:31
different than it was at many other
times what are we just to make

00:44:36
a holiday so if you remember
20162017 North Korea carried out

00:44:42
a essentially an escalating campaign that
in the community we referred to escalate

00:44:49
to deescalate that you build pressure and
build pressure planning at some point to

00:44:54
offer an off ramp to the other side and
they did they said they'd go to the

00:44:59
Olympics in the beginning of 2018 and
President moon of South Korea grabbed that

00:45:05
and said wonderful now they're doing the
escalation number primarily focused on the

00:45:10
u.s. And they're hoping that the u.s.

00:45:12
Will give them serious concessions so
they're kind of gone past the working with

00:45:18
South Korea so we're in

00:45:19
a different situation in that regard but
North Korea still seems to want to be

00:45:24
getting something for nothing or very
little They're not offering much to the

00:45:30
president they certainly didn't that annoy
they made it very clear it had no way

00:45:34
that what they were offering was only
selective reduction of the. Young beyond

00:45:41
nuclear facilities with no indication of
which ones would be reduced and therefore

00:45:47
the president couldn't count on very much
that's where the humor seems to have been

00:45:52
how can we as sensually get concessions
from us by offering as little as he has to

00:45:58
and proportioning on much less than even
that the bottom line is the big winner in

00:46:04
this whole process has been Kim Jong un
Kim Jong un has gotten recognition as

00:46:09
a major power by doing

00:46:11
a summit meeting to nail almost 3 with
President Trump he's got recognition that

00:46:17
he's probably a reasonable
state rather than

00:46:20
a rogue state he's gotten us to suspend
or seriously downsize all our military

00:46:26
exercises on the peninsula he's gotten

00:46:29
a great deal he's given very little
right that's Bruce Bennett he is

00:46:34
a Rand Corporation senior
international defense researcher.

00:46:43
Defended itself Monday against criticism
it was too weak and for signing over

00:46:47
international climate change negotiations
saying it did all it could but that 4 big

00:46:52
polluting countries got in the way and
speaking to reporters at the end of the

00:46:56
summit Sunday in Madrid climate policy
specialist all day Meyer with the Union of

00:47:01
Concerned Scientists expressed disappointment.
Never have I seen the almost total

00:47:07
disconnection we've seen here at the top
25 in Madrid between what the science

00:47:12
requires on the people of the world.
And what the climate negotiators are

00:47:16
delivering in terms of meaningful action
the planet is on fire and our window is

00:47:22
getting harder and harder to reach the
longer we fail to act. Joining us now to

00:47:28
talk more about these and results or lack
thereof is Marc Hauser director of our

00:47:32
Climate Change Institute at the Australian
National University thank you for being

00:47:38
with us it sounds like the world leaders
are not really listening to scientists or

00:47:41
protesters outside of
the conference there's

00:47:44
a huge gap growing between the policy actions
of governments particularly and what

00:47:51
the public's various nations are starting
to expect and and that's why there was

00:47:57
this I think general tension between the
climate strikers and the protest movements

00:48:03
and gratitude from the and and what
actually occurred at the conference which

00:48:08
actually sent

00:48:09
a relatively minimal progress was there any
progress that had any meaning at all to

00:48:14
do it there was progress in various areas
particularly in Article 6 which is the

00:48:19
market mechanisms there was

00:48:21
a lot of clarity to the extra that wasn't
fully resolved there are still 3 areas

00:48:26
which are running on resolved effectively
thing kicked down the can and I can't

00:48:31
kick down the road to Glasgow and ageing
but there was that some progress in terms

00:48:35
of the finance area. And

00:48:38
a little bit selfish way but not knowledge
huge amount but one of the big things I

00:48:43
think was there was

00:48:44
a developing group called the San Jose group
to starting to develop principles for

00:48:50
how a market mechanism try to exist in
my work and the centrally saying this is

00:48:56
a minimum requirement for

00:48:58
a system that has integrity has just
transparency and is going to deliver outcomes

00:49:03
I think that was actually quite

00:49:04
a big step forward as far as the actions
that the scientists are saying governments

00:49:09
need to take now to literally protect
the planet humanity but it could be

00:49:14
catastrophic if nothing is done did any
of the things scientists say needed to be

00:49:18
done get done not really deflating was
ideally the result of all of the what's

00:49:23
called the rulebook issues how the parish.
Going to be implemented and next g.m.

00:49:29
Was going to be before increased commitment
2020 gauge will for increased and sure

00:49:36
reduction commitments from countries at
Glasgow that's what happened was the rule

00:49:42
book issues didn't get extra resolved
countries by and large didn't like additional

00:49:47
commitments to reduce emissions and so
next year in Glasgow it's going to become

00:49:51
quite crowded and there's going to be all
of those issues to be resolved in terms

00:49:55
of the market mechanisms and lost and
damaging finance as well as negotiations

00:50:01
about increased commitments and you know
that just next mixed agenda much more

00:50:05
crowded again I think that the real progress
here came from other areas for example

00:50:11
the e.u. Declared no intention to go. On

00:50:14
a neutral by 2050 Denmark night

00:50:18
a big fight and in terms of
record emission reductions and

00:50:21
a whole range of businesses came to the
party saying that we've got to make

00:50:25
emission reductions which are consistent
with the past agreement in other words

00:50:28
very recognition reductions so there was
some movement that didn't come from

00:50:33
countries we know that raising their ambition
to reduce emissions How concerning is

00:50:38
it that another year will go by with any
of these commitments still basically

00:50:45
just

00:50:45
a matter of something people are discussing
but nothing happening and these young

00:50:50
people out there feeling frustrated some
of them many of them not old enough to

00:50:53
vote to make change to who makes decisions
regarding their futures Well that's

00:50:58
right so if every year we keep on them each
evening at our current right we choose

00:51:03
3 roughly speaking at the London spent
10 percent remaining carbon dodge it is

00:51:08
consistently staying below $1.00 degrees
so next year it will actually be

00:51:12
a big proportion the year
after that and so just

00:51:16
a few years down the track every year that
we delay will be getting up to half and

00:51:20
then all of the remaining emissions budget
that's consistent with $1.00 and that's

00:51:24
going to have an awfully quickly
and. Every year that we die

00:51:29
a meeting at high levels are actually
really critical and we do need to move very

00:51:34
quickly very good at the agency and that's
Mark out in his director of Climate

00:51:39
Change Institute at the Australian
National University You're listening to

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00:53:04
the Kenya grows ends up in specialty stores
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00:53:10
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00:53:15
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00:53:20
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farmers should drug has been growing

00:53:27
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00:53:33
macadamia and avocado trees he says seeing
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00:53:40
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00:53:43
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00:53:48
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00:53:52
temperature has gone up
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00:53:55
a decade since 1905 according to the u.s.

00:53:59
Agency for International
Development. At the local uni coffee

00:54:05
factory farmers are learning techniques
such as planting trees to shed bad crop and

00:54:11
they are growing food crops alongside their
coffee to add to their income dragon

00:54:16
Zeki is the chief executive officer not
food to indicate an imbalance but to get

00:54:22
along tree planting in the areas where the
you know they are not traced. Back to

00:54:28
grain planting trees. To
get inside. Because of

00:54:35
less coverages and ocean the
farmers have also started

00:54:40
a savings and loan cooperative group to
enable members to have access to credit

00:54:44
facilities and save up. clément In when the
climate was good. Production was doing

00:54:51
very well then the production suddenly
went down and at the same time our day to

00:54:55
day needs still needed to be taken
care of so we came together to find

00:54:59
a lasting solution to these problems brought
about by climate change the country's

00:55:03
coffee production is plummeting the u.s.

00:55:05
Department of Agriculture forecasts the
20192020 harvest the will hit a 57 e.u.r.

00:55:11
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00:57:04
Thank you.

00:58:45
This is be a way of use I boy who
brought attention is already turning to

00:58:49
a set of the big. Jamin trial even though
Republicans are expected to acquit

00:58:53
President Trump a.p.

00:58:54
Correspondent Matt small reports
Senate Democrats are proposing

00:58:58
a week's long impeachment trial seeking
testimony from new witnesses including

00:59:02
acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and
former national security adviser John

00:59:06
Bolton and although Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell the Senate stop Republican

00:59:10
appears to prefer a speedy trial
President Trump is demanding

00:59:13
a flash or one an effort to up the political
ante as he sees it calling for Joe

00:59:18
Biden or his son Hunter and others to appear
Trump has told those close to him that

00:59:22
even if he's acquitted in the Senate as
expected it will be a stain on his legacy

00:59:26
a final House vote is
expected when stay with

00:59:29
a Senate trial to begin early next year
Matt small Washington Indian prime minister

00:59:34
in a random o.t.

00:59:35
Appealed for calm as
protests escalated against

00:59:38
a new citizenship law that critics have
slammed as and time Muslim and part of

00:59:43
a Hindu 1st agenda being pushed by his
political party opposition party leaders

00:59:48
staged protests in several states tensions
ran high in the country's new Of these

00:59:53
which has been engulfed with angry
demonstrations due to worries that the new law

00:59:57
would allow tens of thousands of Hindu
immigrants to settle in the region the new

01:00:02
law will fast track Andean citizenship for
religious minorities such as the Hindus

01:00:07
Sikhs and Christians who face religious
persecution in Afghanistan Bangladesh

01:00:12
Pakistan but exclude Muslims and the u.s.

01:00:16
Supreme court is refusing to hear a
case that would allow cities to make it

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a crime to sleep on the streets the
appeals court said as long as there is no

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option of sleeping indoors the government
cannot criminalize indigent homeless

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people for sleeping outdoors on public
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Washington this is the only news scores
of companies and foundations are joining

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forces to help millions
of refugees prepare for

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a better life used to smile. Reports for
the away from the World Refugee summit

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more than 100 companies and foundations
are committing their time money and

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business Ackermann to help many of the
world's 25000000 refugees find jobs get an

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education and become contributing
members of their countries of exile

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representatives of these organizations
are among more than 2000 representatives

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from all sectors of society attending the
1st ever global refugee forum the un

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refugee agency reports that more than 30
organizations including multinationals and

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small and medium sized enterprises have
pledged more than $250000000.00 to help

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transform the lives of refugees and the
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News Geneva French unions are planning mass
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